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CANTERBURY HALL. Triumphant Success of PRINCE PERFUME AND PRINCESS BOUQUET. Under the title of Prince Perfume and Princess Bouquet Is nightly to be seen at the Canterbury Hall a Magic Spectacle far transeendinz in poetry of concept'on, beauty and in eri nay of arrangement, scenic effect, and brilliancy of light and colour any former apelication (even at this Hall) of the principle known as the OPTICAL ILLUSION. In this last collective display of scenic art and of brilliant choreographic and statuesque grouping will be found pictures surpassing some of the greatest achievements of the Modern Extra vaganza—Sce "THE SHIPWRECK," "THIS PHANTOM COMBAT," and "THE CURTAIN OF FIRE." The "Illusive Sketch," which is the centre of these corns cat'on s. is by Mr. W. F. Vandervell ; the overture and inci dental music by Willem Vandervell. Prince Perfume, Mrs. William Randall. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). QTRAND MUSICK HALL. PROMENADE CONCERTS EVERY EVENING. 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CONTENTS.-On the Duties and Responsibilities of the Chemi t in Dispensing Meoicines -Pharmaceutical Meeting -The Distribu ion of Prizes-A Contribution to the History of Balsam of Peru-Extraction and Preservation of Aronmta -On Commercial Carbonate of Bismuth-Pharmaceutical Applicatons of Glycerine-Application of Dialysis in Deter mining the Crystalline Constituents of Plants-On a Test for Methylio Alcohol-Report on Weights and Measures used in Pharmacy -On Microscopical Research-On Commercial Podophyllin-A Chemist's Holiday : Jottings in France -On the Cultivation of Medicinal Plants-On the Preparation of Concentrated Infusions-On the Calabar Bean-On the Mor phia Salts of Commerce-On Commercial Phosphoric Acid- On the Assay of the Alkaloids - On the Purity of Commercial Powder of Opium, ttc -On an improved Wine of Iron-Re port on Citrate of Iron and Quinine-Medical and Pharma ceutical Resp:nsibil,ty-Medical Titles-Obituary : Thomas Herring. 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'etZi .....,..„, . _ ~. ...,ffitaiwr ictite from .- 4 - ,.. , . ! ~,e), - . - .. The Crown Prosecutor sai •.: -5-•••• ""' 17,•-• •e„,r, c,,,Ft h j • A V -f :'. ;.7 . - ''''.--; 14 - st! M. Horn, the chief president in Ilion. a s _ ..- :‘,..: . 71 1 . . 4 . 4 .. :, ~ ,-. > 1 t 5 :-'" . ...., ,---,..- , to ,-,....,,, ii- v . ... .- 4 . 2 , ' -- '- ' '‘. VIZI .;-- 'A, -- tioi_ - 11...:N4 , : - i --3, \7z.. -,,.- \\,....... .. i-,,,_ _ 4„.rik 4' ~ . ,7 -1?)... .-.-- mmiw: , A L \ --,- -, I. ,-+_---- ..t.-- 74, `.,t' ,vrinot. . • kill I,,A ~ Nor , , ~ -,,- --- ' ' DIE i - .... 4 ,' 3- ,-. , V/ . - . ~ - r - -.1 ', , . .. :- 4,- Messrs Brachvogel, Holthoff, and Elven protested against the reading of the papers, they being copies ',of papers of whose authenticity there was no proof, ..... _ ' 7 ''' . ...• ~.--'- '4"; ''' e' 16- 43 r -e.,,...' ..... t - 13"....• • The Crown Prosecutor said he would not press tho read ing of the papers. • PRICF ..4d. STAMPED ....sd. The examination of M. Maciejewki was then resumed, and after some evidence of slight importance had been taken the further hearing of the case was postponed. Herr Lewald proposed that certain witnesses should 14 called who heard M. Szcz iniecki say, in February, ISS, that he considered any attempt at insurrection against Prussia absurd and impossible, and that he would never take part in such an attempt. The Court reserved its decision. would see they had not fully earned the ad interim divi dend in July of Ils per share, or at the rate of 22 per cent. There was a balance of £3,033 to the debit of the account, of which £1,200 was for income tax, which they ought to have deducted rateably from the dividend warrants, so that the actual deficiency on the half-year end ing Juno 30 was £1,825, or about 51 per share. If they had paid 10s 7d per share instead of 1 is the dividend would have been at the rate of 5.3 per cent. for the year instead of 51 per cent. The prospects of the ensuing half-year were not much more favourable than the last. He hoped that the economy which Mr Clay had recommended would be of permanent advantage He had reduced the number of per sons employed on the lino from 462 to 305—(hear)—and had also:suggesfed very judicious measures as to the distri bution of stores,v hich would lead to some din•.inution of ex penditure ; but that could not take effect at ones to the full extent, because they had engagements to the end of the year with English workmen, On the other hand, the expense of maintaining the way would be increased by the substitu tion of new sleepers in the place of the decayed sleepers. The decay had been more rapid than was anticipated. The dividend foi the year he estimated would be about £5 6s per cent. (Hear.) With respect to their traffic, there were clearances of land in the neighbourhood of the railway, which indicated that agriculture was extending on land ad joining or near the railway. They were also succeeding slowly in diverting the traffic from its original channels. The planters were so wedded to the old routes that it was only with the greatest difficulty that any of them could be prevailed upon to give up those routes. At three places on their line some very wealthy gentlemen were about forming business connections with the railway. The places were Alagoinhas, Matta, and at a place near Bahia. Those gentlemen were going to build warehouses, and had asked the company to find the rails and requisite materials for sidings to those warehouses, and they would find the labour. He thought, on the whole, that their prospects were good and favourable. On the 19:1 M. Bleszynski was examined. He admitted having purchased and forwarded arms for the insurgents, but denied having had any hostile intentidn towardsPrusia. Messrs. ZAblocki and Czapski, accused of having sent carts full of arms to the frontier, acknowledged that they did so, but said that they did not know what was in the carts wbich they found on their estates. M. Leon do Martwell was next examined. lie asserted that the papers found upon him, which were stated to be lost, must be in the possession of the plice. The transla tions put in by the prosecution were quite incorrect, and did not at all agree with the originals. The Crown Prosecutor (indignantly)—Surely you do not mean to state that Prussian employes have forged any documents ? Herr Elven—l have repeatedly offered to prove that the police employes in Posen, from the president ,to the lowest policeman, hav i e forged documents, but I have never been allowed to prove this. The President—l think we may now leave this sta t ject. Dr Niegolewski—Not at all. Documents may at any moment be produced which proved that the Posen police have presented to the Court a forged proclamation as a real one. The matter then dropped, After some further evidence had been taken in the case of M. de Martwell, who denied having taken any part in the ' insurrection, the Court liberated M, ZAblocki till the let November, but refused to liberate M. CzApaki. The proceedings on the 20th began with the examination of M, J. Rohr, the next of the accused on the list. M. Rohr deposed as follows—ln 1816 I left Berlin and proceeded to Lithuania to prepare an insurrection there. I was arrested and severely examined during two years, at the end of which time I was sentonced by a military tribunal to 15 years' hard labour in Siberia. The Czar altered the sen tence, ordering me first to receive 1,000 blows with a stick, and if I survived, to work for 12 years in the mines of Sibc. ria. I survived the torture, and the general in command was disgraced by the Czar because I had not died under it. I was then sent in chains to Tobolak, whence I proceeded on foot with a company of malefacors to Siberia. My journey lasted more than 11 months, There I remained seven or eight years, and was pardoned after the treaty of Paris, since which I worked in the office of Makowski and Co., at Dantzic, Mr T. M. IVEGuEfax, M.P., seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. A long discussion ensued, in which Mr L. Cooke, Mr G. Simpson, Mr C. Nicholson, Captain Gossett, Mr Goez, and other shareholders took part, expressing considerable dissatisfaction with the present position of the company, the smallness of the traffic, and the disproportion of the receipts to the working expenses, whereby the guaranteed dividend paid by the Brazilian Government was reduced to something like the rate of 51 per cent. per annum, instead of being at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, Tho CHAIRMAN defend6d the directors, contending that they had done everything they had promised; they had constructed the railway for a specified sum and had not ex ceeded the estimated cost. It was stated that the sleepers had decayed more rapidly than was expected and the re newal of them formed a large item against revenue. The maintenance of the way and works would, owing to the na ture of the climate and soil, be costly for some years to come. After some unimportant evidence, Herr Elven proposed that the accused be liberated, paying at the same time a high tribute to his patriotism and the courage with which. he bore his almost unexampled sufferings. F. W. Johannson, merchant, of Konigsberg, was next called. He said he had never sold arms to the Poles, and that he wished he could have given them more assistance than he did. The report was adopted. On the motion of Mr NronoEsoN, seconded by Mr GOEZ, resolutions were unanimously passed to the cffect, that a committee of shareholders be appointed to confer with the directors on the present position and future prospects of the undertaking, and propose such measures in conjunction with the Board as might seem to them desirable in the interests of the shareholders, and to report their opinions to a future meeting of the company, and that the committee consist of Messrs Holloway, G. Simpson, Goa, Morgan, and C. Nicholson. After a sharp discussion regarding the manner in which the prosecution conducted their case, in the course of which the president admitted that it was not quite clear that the prosecution were right, the Court liberated Mr. Johannson temporarily, but refused to liberate M. Rohr, alter which it adjourned to the 22d. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. COPILPO EXTENSION. The half-yearly meeting of this company (the Pabollon and Chanareillo, under the law of Chili) was held on Friday at the offices, 2, New Broad-street—Mr Holland in the chair. The report stated that there had been an expenditure on the capital account, up to the 30th June last, of £200,463, being an increase of £379. The traffic account for the year ending the same date showed receipts to the amount of £16,240, against the sum of £13,090 for the previous year. The balance to the profit and loss account was now £7,403, being an increase during the year of £3,406, alter paying £1 . ,:193 interest on ebentures, bonds, and loans. The CHAIR:NU:sr moved the adoption of the report, which he said showed a satisfactory increase in the receip:s of nearly £3,200 ; and, dedue in g the increased cost of working, there had been a positive result of !,2CO better than the previous year. The increase in the traffic of the line since the opening in 1559 had been slow, but it had been steady, and the reports received from the manager led to the belief that the increase would continue. The manager in Chili informed the directors that a company whose property was connected with this line proposed to form a new lino to mineral districts eastward, and if that were done a great advantage would accrue to this company, as the extension would open, it was reported, a rew channel of permanent income and benefit. The report prezented was :ir encou raging one. The re was a positive profit of £7,490, which ought to be in the pockets of the shareholders, and that it was not was owing to peculiar circumstances. The share capital of the company was but little over £76,000, while the ex penditure had exceeded that amount, and though the direc • tors had authority to issue debentures to the amount of £20,000, there remained bonds to the amount of £7,000 yet to be issued to make up that sum. The profits had there fore been used in the place of the unissued debenture bonds, and as soon as the money could he replaced with that from the debenture bonds, the earnings would be at the disposal of the proprietors. Ho concluded by moving the adoption of the report. Mr FLETCHER, seconded the motion. Mr SURGEY expressed an opinion that the unissued debentures might have been taken up if they had been brought to the public notice, considering that they bore 7 per cent interest, and were well secured. After some conversation, the report was approved, and the direction was advised to press the debentures upon the public as soon as the money market became easier. A vuto of thanks to the directors concluded the pro■ ceedingi. The Great Polish Trial at Berlin. Last week's session was opened on the 17th, The pro ceedings commenced by the reading of certificates from the president of the Posen police, Herr von Baereusprung and others relative to M. Rekowaki, all of which testified to his being a quiet, respectable man, who did not mix in politics. Some unimportant evidence was then taken in the case of IC Drodnicki, alter which a witness named Glnz kowsk was heard against M. Mittlestadt, whom he accused of having called upon him for taxes, and threatened him with punishment by the National Government on his re fusing to pay. The documents he put in in proof of these statements were examined by the experts, who, however, disagreed in their judgment upon them, the Germans de claring they were in M. Mittelstadt's handwriting, and the Poles that they wore not. The same difference of opinion was shown in the case of the document attributed to Count Brinski. The defence then submitted that Messrs, Rekowski, Brodnicki, Malezewski, Krasicki, and Kierski be liberated, and Count Brinski given a fortnight's leave. The Court refused to liberate any of these gentlemen, and announced that Messrs. Rekowski and Brinski might be granted leave if they asked for it in writing. After some discussion regarding a letter attributed to General Taczanowski, which, it was alleged, compromised Dr. Niegolewski, the accused Abbe Cichowski and J. Bana. szak were examined. It was alleged by the prosecution that the estate of M. Casimir Chlapowski, son of the well known general of that name, was one of the centres of re• volution in Posen, and that materials of war were manu factured there by Banaszak, under the superintendence of the Abbe Cichowski. The abbe, however, denied having had anything to do with the matter, and Banaszak said he had made the arms, &c., at the order of an unknown person who promised to pay him well for them. The Court here stopped the proceedings, after refusing to liberate M. Jackowski. ----- On the 18th evidence was taken in the case of the gentlemen who had taken part in the Skorzencin expedi • tion, but nothing was elicited against them. Herr Elven here pointed out that in the charge sheet three persons were ac cused of high treason in making an indirect attack on the integrity of the Prussian State, whereas the criminal code only regarded acts tending directly to high treason as trea sonable. _____ The Crown Prosecutor rejoined that this was a slip in the charge-sheet, inasmuch as he regarded war against Russia as a direct act of hostility to Prussia in the sense of the code. The Abbe Gouski was then examined. lie admitted that ho had given money to volunteers proceeding to the king.. dom of Poland, but said he had nu intention of assisting in designs against Prussia. _ The Court now liberated tho Abbe Cichowski and Banas zak, on the condition that they appeared again on the Ist November; but refused to liberate the gentlemen belong ing to the Skorz?ncin expedition. Baron Soydewitz and M. Mrowinski protested against this decision, declaring that tht-y had always respected the Prussian law and never violated it. M. S. Macifjewski was then brought up for examination. The chief evidence against this gentleman lay in the so called "Paris papers," regarding the admissibility of which a lively discussion took place. Herr Brachvogel protested against the papers being read. When it was announced that they had been seized by the French Government and sent to the Plussian Govern ment through the Russian Embassy in Paris, the French Government contradicted this sta+ement in its organ the Ifoniieur, and the contradiction was confirmed by the Journal clo Ators-Ovury, It therefore appeared that these The Convict Muller. Yesterday morning the Sh riffs of London, Mr Alderman Dakin and Mr Alderman Besley, accompanied by the Under-Sheriff3, Mr Davidson and Mr Da Jersey, the Rev. Mr Davis, the ordinary of Newgate, and Mr Jonas, the governor, visited the convict Franz Muller in his cell, and announced to him that Monday week, the 14th of Novem ber, had been fixed for his execution. The convict received the intimation with calmness. The Sheriffs took occasion solemnly to exhort him to make the best use he could of the interval which remained to him to live, and he appeared to understand the full force of the entreaty. Daring the inter view he acknowledged that he had had a fair trial, but he was understood to say, in cif:Jet, that the evidence in sup port of an alibi had done him more harm than good. Ho spoke in broken English and in a low tone, and his remarks on that subject left somewhat different impressions on the minds of the deputation. By some he was understood to refer to the prejudice which his case had suffered by recourse having been had to the evidence of two women of immoral elaract er, an:: by others he was supposed to have questioned a line of defence which, though undertaken with the best intentions, tended, in the result, to weaken his case, as it previously Etc od on its merits, and was eventually need to strengthen that of the prosecution. lie wis told by one of the Sheriffi i.i effect that bat for the alibi the case for ene prosecution would have remained partially unanswered. and that his counsel were justified in resorting to it if they believed, as no doubt they did, there was anything in it, and sifting it to the bottom. He appeared to adhere to his own opinion upon the point, and the profitless conversation wad not further continued. After sentence had been passed on Saturday afternoon ho seemed hardly at first to realise the po,ition in which it left him, but on reaching his cell he gave Kay to a paroxysm of grief which in ono sense had the cfEct of relieving him, and by 7 o'clock in the evening he had fallen into a sound sleep, which continued far into the night. There is reason fot believing that he slept but little if at all on either Thursday or Friday night, while his trial was pending, and that on Saturday evening, after all was over, he succumbed to sheer exhaustion. On Friday evening, while his counsel, Mr Sergeant Parry, was addressing the jury, he was repeatedly overcame by his feelings, and gave way to tears which her sought to conceal by holding down his head as he satin the dock. On Sunday ha attended the ordinary service in the chapel of the prison, and yesterday he was visited by a Ger man clergyman from the west end of the town, understood to be of the Lutheran persuasion. At the Central Criminal on trials for murder it is usual to remove the prisoner from the public gaze while the jury are deliberating on their verdict. On Saturday Muller was asked to retire while the jury were so engaged, but he declined the proffered consi— deration, preferring to remain in court, awaiting their re turn, and ho sat in the dock amid the hum of conversation in which the audience indulged while the judges and the jury were absent from the court. He was ghastly pale, and his solicitor, Mr Beard, spoke occasionally to him, evi dently with the view to sustain him in the'awful interval of suspense. He heard with apparent fortitude his doom as it was pronounced by Mr Baron Martin, and it was only at its conclusion that his courage seemed to forsake him. In a few parting words which he addressed to the Bench in broken English he struggled hard to c)nceal his emotion. He held his hand over his mouth as he spoke, and it was difficult to hoar what he said. Mr Jonas, the governor, withdrew the hand in order that ho might be the better understood, but after that he said no thing more, and on leaving the dock ho had the presence of mind to turn round and bow to his counsel, as if ha token of his gratitude for their services on his behalf. The jury who tried him were most impartially chosen— that is, one man was taken in turn from the list for each of the five counties which send prisoners for trial at the Cen tral Criminal Court, and in the end, after there had been 1G peremptory challenges on the part of the prisoner and one on behalf of the Crown, 12 men were empanelled wholly unknown to each other, and presenting in their general appearance, and in the questions they occasionally put to the witnesses, a fair representation of the intelligent middlo class of the community. They paid the most anxious atten tion to the whole proceedings from beginning to end, so much so that when towards the end of the summing up, the Loid Chief Baron put the question to them, they de. dined to trouble him to read the evidence. They were ab. sent a quarter of an hour, and their verdict was given with. complete unanimity. A great crowd had collected for somo hours outside the Courthouse in tho Old Bailey to await the verdict, and when it was given the people separated in, great excitement. Mr Beard, tho convict's solicitor, had to be escorted along the Old Bailey into Ludgate-hill by policemen, but whether this was to protect him from tho mere curiosity of the crowd or from any apprehended danger did not appear. ELOPEMENT OF A YOUNG LADY„—.B. young lady has disappeared from Mamhead, near Dawlish, under circumstances Which have greatly distressed her parents. She is the daughter of the heads of one of the most respectable and well-to-do families in the neighbour hood, is 19 years of age, and has been an object of marked adniiration on account not only of her personal charms, but of her fascinating manners and educational accomplish ments. Her tuition had been under the care of a resident governess, and no pains had been spared to cultivate the intellectual parts of one whose fine figure and handsome face had rendered her the pride of the family. On Thurs day morning she was missed from her room, and inquiries were immediately set on foot to discover her whereabouts. Front what has been ascertained at tho Dawlish Railway Station and elsewhere, there is too much reason to believe that this young lady has becu accompanied in her bight by a young man, only about 18 years cf age, who has been up to a week ago wor ki ng f or th e taw il Y as a farm lab ourer . Ile was discharged last week, but was seen near the house on Wednesday. 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L. COBBETT and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford bridge, London. B.E. Lancashire Distress. CENTRAL FUND. A meeting of the Executive Committee was held at the Town-hall, Manchester,yesterday. The Earl of Derby pre sided, and there were also present Lord E. Howard, M.P., Lord Egerton of Tatton, Col. W. Patten, M.P., Major Egerton Leigh, the Mayor of Manchester, Messrs. Hugh Mason, G. Ashworth, S. J. Stern, W. Rathbone, jun., G. L. Ashworth, J. Platt, J. Worrell, H. B, Parnell, R, H. Hutchinson, M.:Ross and J. W. Maclure, Hon, Sec. Mr Rawlinson, was also present. The Hon. Secretary reported that £230 7s 5d had been received during the past week, and the balance in the bank was £101,667 16s 11d. The noble CHAIRMAN, referring to what passed in the committee last week respecting the comparatively small number of factory operatives employed on public works, said that the communication on the subject which by di rection of the Committee was sent to th 3 Manchester Town Council had not yet been officially answered, though he un derstood it shortly would be. In the meantime, without desiring to enter into any controversy with the Town Coun cil, which ought to be avoided, it was thought by Sir J. Kaye-Shuttleworth, and he (Lord Derby) concurred in the opinion, that it might be as well to notify to relief commit tees that in cases where money had been advanced to their own localities under the Public Works Act they should put themselves into communication with the local authorities, for the purpose of stimulating the employment of cotton operatives on the public works. It seemed to him (the chairman) that neither party thought it its duty to take the initiative in this matter. The local authorities said they wero not bound to look out for these unemployed factory Teratives, and the relief committees did not think it neces sary to send to the authorities lists of factory workmen fit for employment. S 9 between them, as there could be no doubt whatever, only a very small number of operatives were at work under the Public Works Act, Sir James had forwarded him a number of suggestions, which he recom wended should be embodied in the form of a circular, and s gat to the several committees. The Chaitnian read the suggestions, "and after some con vet-satin the following circuler embodying them was una uimuusly adopted, and ordered to be forwarded to the Relief Committec— "The Central Executive Committee has from the first upported the plan of public works for the relief of distress n the cotton districts, and, since the passing of the Public Works (Manufacturing, Districts) Act, has, by its regula tions for the distribution of the Central Relief Fund, en deavoured to promote the success of this measure, as a means of providing work with wages for bodies of mon who had become indigent by no fault of their own, and likewise of relieving the diffimlties of the small shop keepers, by giving greater activity to the several forms of skilled industry necessarily employed upon municipal hn provements. The embarrassment now experienced in fac tory work may be comparatively transient—but if so it will probably recur at intervals with more or less severity. And, as the funds confided to the Central Executive Committee, though husbanded with great care to meet such crises, are much reduced, it now becomes more than ever important that the several district relief committees should put them selves in communication with the municip 11 and other bodies having locally charge of public works, in order to secure work with wages for as many otherwise unemployed factory operatives as possible. I am, therefore, to suggest 'hat, whenever a loan has been granted under the Public Works Act, the district relief commitee should—where this has not already been done—put itself in immediate personal communication with the municipal or other body having charge of such loan, is order to organise administrative arrangements by which the district relief committee may be enabled more effectually to carry out the intentions of tha Legislature as to the employment of factory operatives on such works. The Central Executive Committee, in order to encourage factory workmen in such efforts for indepen dent subsistence, have provided a suit of warm clothing for those who are likely to be long engaged on such work, and arranged also to lend waterproof boots to those working in water. They are disposed, under suitable regulations, to continue to provide such clothing." Mr Huoll MASON said that before leaving the subject of public works he should like to mention a circumstance which occurred a few days ago between tho Poor Law Board and the Mossley Board of Health. The Mossley Board had projected public works, and obtained a grant of money under the Public Works Act. The day the grant was made men were put upon the works, but in a few days after the grant was withdrawn. The CHAIRMAN—HOW withdrawn P Mr MASON said the Mossley Board had received a notice from the Poor Law Board intimating that the money granted could not be used in the manner in which it was being ap plied. There appbared to be a technical difficulty. The Mossley Board had jurisdiction in two counties, and a small portion of the money would have been expended upon works in Yorkshire, to which county the Public Works Act did not refer. This difficulty was foreseen at the outset., and a deputation from the Mossley Board waited on Sir George Grey and Mr Villiers on the subject, and those two Minis. ters sanctioned the appropriation of the money :in the way proposed by the local Board. Under such circumstances the Board thought it was rather hard the money should be withdrawn, and great dissatisfaction existed in the Mossley district generally. He had recommended an interview with Ur Rawlinson on the subject. Mr FARNALL said that the Public Works Act did not extend to Yorkshire, but legal advice was being taken by the Poor Law Board to see if the dif f iculty in the case of Moseley could be overcome, and it was not impossible that even yet the grant to that district might be finally sane • tioned. Mr Farnall presented his weekly report, stating that the increase of persons receiving relief in the 27 Unions in the week ending Oct. 22 was 2,247. In reply to Lord E. HOWARD, Mr FARNALL added that he had sent circulars to 181 Poor Law medical officers in the cotton districts, inquiring as to the state of the people's health in their several locali ties, and from 120 of these circulars thus far returned he was justified in stating that the health of the district was on the average rather better than usual at this period of the year. In reply to Lord EGERTON, he promised that Mr Corbett's reports on the state of health at Stalybridge and Preston should be furnished if possible next Monday. In the course of conversation which followed, Mr HUGH MASON stated that upwards (1 1,300 people were employed on public works at Ashton, and that a greater number could be employed if materials could be obtained. Mr RAWLtNSON stated that many districts to which loans of public money had been granted had done their duty in the employment of factory operatives. Col. PATTEN said ho had received a letter from Lord Devon inquiring whether the Devonshire Collection Com mittee might appropriate any portion cf its funds to a diffe rent purpose than that for which they were subscribed. He had taken upon himself to reply that in the present un favourable condition of things in Lancashire the Executive Committee would not assume the responsibility of sanction ing such an appropriation. In this reply the committee universally concurred. The CHAIRMAN inquired what answers had been received to the circulars addressed to the various collecting commit tees in the country, as to the balances still at their disposal, The HoN. SECRETARY said that there had been 338 com • tnittees which had collected funds in the United Kingdom, to the officers of which circulars had been sent, making the necessary inquiries; 171 replies had been received, which showed, so far, that of the, committees which had replied those in Ireland had remitted the full amount subscribed— that in Scotland two committees had £404 103 6d in hand— and that in England and Wales 22 committees had retained balances amounting to £15,220 Ils. This did not, however, include the Sheffield, Leeds, or Halifax balances, nor the balance of the committee to which Col, Patten had re ferred, but did include £11,178 Os 4d in the hacds of the treasurer of the Bradford committee. Ho hoped soon to be able to lay on the table replies from all the committees. The following grants were made from the general relief fund :—To Livesey, £.so—Crompton, £.150 —Failswor.h, £l2o—Cragg-valley, £so—Hincklay, XioO—Hurst, £l:so— £loo—Newchurcb, £lso—St. Matthew's, Chad derton, £loo—Oldham, .000—Turton and Edgeworth, £lO —and Llollinwod, £lO. Railway and Other Companies. EAST INDIAN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern—Mr. R. W. Crawford, M.P., in the chair. Mr NOAD, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, the report was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he trusted they would consider it very satisfactory. The line was now opened from Cale cutta to Delhi, with the exception of the bridge over the Jumna at Allahabad and the bridge over the same river near Delhi, which latter bridge had not yet been sanctioned. Any passenger could now be conveyed from Calcutta to Delhi or vice versa, and goods could be sent over the railway. The line was 1,016 miles in length, and he believed it was the longest line possessed and worked by one corn. patty. As for traffic, he thought they had no reason to be dissatisfied with it. They had had a very steady increase in the passenger and goods traffic, an increase in the receipts, and a diminution of ex penses. Whatever might be the amount of the re ceipts, it would not do what was requisite unless the line was worked with economy. The directors had given their attention to this matter with a view that economy should be exercised in working the line from one end to the other. The expenditure was under the constant review of members of the Board. Their system of audit in India enabled them to see how the business was conducted, to check any portion of the expenditure, and keep it within reasonable bounds, The progress of the works was now chiefly confined to finishing up the works in hand. With regard to theJubbulpore line,the works on it were progressing to the satisfaction of the engineer. The works were proceeding rapidly, and he hoped they would be able to perfect that part of their system without the risk of disappoint ment, There only remained the short line, which would have to be brought under the consideration of the shareholders. It was proposed to start from the main line at a point beyond Raneegunge to the main line again near Luckserai. This was consi dered a preferable line to construct, as it would be shorter than the main line between these points end save the expense of doubling it for that disc. tance. But, in addition to that, the power of obtain. log an ample supply of excellent coal at a cheap rate, which the chord line would give them, was a consideration of great importance to the company. The country through which the line intended to pass had been examined in various directions, and one line in particular had been selected, but the dire° tors had received no official information about it. We en they received the necessary plans the direr. tors:would come to the shareholders for their assent. The bill authorising the company to raise additional capital received the Royal assent last session, but the directors would not exercise any of those powers without the assent of the proprietors. He would ask them to sanction the raising of £1,200,000, which would be necessary for the completion of the Jubbulporo line. As to perfecting the main lic e and stations, the directors were not satisfied with the estimates they bad received as to the cost of these works. Some three or four years ago an esti mate of the cost of those works had been made out, but it differed so much in amount from the meet estimate that the directors had sent for Mr. Power, the engineer, to explain those matters to the Board in London. They hoped that something useful and satisfactory would be ascertained with regard to those proposed works. A statement had appeared in some of the newspapers respecting the proposed construction of a bridge across the Hooghly from the present terminus of the line at Howrah, with a view to carry the railway into Calcutta. All he could say was that they had not entered into any arrangement of the kind, and they knew nothing about it. There was no intention on the part of the Board of calling for any more money until they ascertained from their officers what would be absolutely required for the completion of the There at u a presen t consultation o works. S omething had been sa i d a b out clos i ng the capital account, an d i t h a d b een sa id b y th e govern ing body th at the capital account should be closed at a certain sum, but, however desirable, they did not h se otawthawtitwhatshteo represen tatives ere had been hnsultion of the rail wa y companies on the subject of revenue and capital accounts ; and it was understood that • . a principle would be adopted for deciding those matters hereafter between each com pany and the Secretary of State. A circular from the Archdeacon of Calcutta had been forwarded, at his request, to the shareholders of the company, on the subject of education and religious instruction, and the result h as b een aa a subscription of between £7,000 and £B,OOO. The directors had taken no further part in it than to forward the circulars with the dividend warrants to individual shareholders, but they had no power as a company to subscribe money for that purpose. He would be happy to answer any questions. Mr Bt Y —ENDALR seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. Mr MoRGAN wished to know the amount of capi tal which the company had expended up to the pre• sent time, the amount advanced by the Government as interest on the £23,000,000 the company had already pa id UPI and how much more would be required for additional works before the capie tal account could be closed. He believed, if they were to go on expending capital, that before the debt due to the Government on interest account could be repaid every one present would be in the grave. He thought it very necessary for them to go to the Government as a body of shareholders and represent their case. They had a former claim on the Government for losses during the mutiny. They had no doubt worked the railway economie cally, and if the fares were too low, as he thought they were. they ought to have power to raise them to a certain maximum amount. He did not want to disturb things, but, as he and others held a stake in the undertaking, he thought they should not rest satisfied with 5 per cent. They should be allowed to develope the traffic, exercise economy, and carry on that great undertaking as a commercial enter prise. (Cheers.) They should not run express trains at 30 miles an hour over the 1,000 miles, nor carry less than full traineloads of merchandise. The CHAIRMAN said the amount of capital ex pended to the present time was about £22,000,000, and the amount of capital not having yet passed the final audit by the Government authorities was about £4,000,000. The audit was completed up to March last year. It was because they did not like the delay of the Government audit that the directors had initiated and adopted, with the sanction of the Government, their present very efficient system of audit, which gave them the power of controlling the expenditure. The receipts wore paid into the Government Treasury, and no money was paid out without the sanction of the Government. Up to the 30th of June last the Government had paid to the company in the shape of interest on capital £6,130,854, and they had received back from the company £1,890,000 as profits on working the rail. way, leaving a balance of £4,246,586 against the icompany, which was to be repaid out of half the suplus profits above 5 per cent, He dirl not en, tertain any desponding views as to the result of their traffic to and from the 120 stations on their line. They were developing the resources as fast as they could, and perfecting the arrangements for conducting the traffic. He did not think the fares were too low, but he thought they were moderate, and should, to a great extent, bo left to those governing aff_►irs in India. There would be no diffi culty in carrying out the suggestions of Mr Goez in the statement of accounts. After some observations respecling the obstruc tions, delay, and expense that had been experienced from the Government interference in carrying cut the undertaking, the report was unanimously adopted, and the directors were authorised to raise £1,200,000, being the amount necessary for the completion of the Jubbelpore line. The total cost of this branch, it was supposed, would not exceed £3,200,000. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA. The report of the directors states that during the half.year no further portion of the railway was opened for traffic. The number of miles worked was 553. The gross receipts brought into the revenue statement amounted to £325,008, being an increase of £90,664 on the receipts of :he corresponding half of last year. The working expenses (including the item " compensation ") amounted to £196,832, or 6056 per cent. of the receipts—and the amount of net profit for the half-year, to be carried to the credit of the interest account with the Government, was £94,506. The average number of miles open for traffic was 553, against 504, showing an increase of 49 miles. The number of train miles run during the half-year was 968,291, against 667,142, show ing an increase of 301,152 miles. The number of passengers carried was 1,803,064, against 1,558,970, showing an increase of 244,094. The receipts for passengers, &c., were £103,611, against £79,160 for the corresponding half of 1863, showing an increase of £24,450. The average receipt per pass senger carried was ls. 4.11, against 10-id. for the same half of 1863, showing an increase of 3d. The merchandise and other receipts amounted t0£221,396 against £155,182, showing an increase of £66,214. The total receipts per train mile were 6s. 81-d., and the expenditure 4s. 9.1. per train mile, leaving the net profit is 11,1,d per train mile. The expenditure during the past year amounted to £230,501, or 70.92 per cent., against £149,559, or 63.81 per cent., for the same half of last year, showing an increase of £80,942, or 7.11 per cent. The amount earned (but excluded from revenue ac count), applied to meet the cost of transporting traffic across the ghats and in Bombay, was £48,866, against £56,100, showing a decrease of £7,234. The locomotive expenditure of last half year in eluded the cost of an engine replaced, and of re placing waggons lost in cotton fires. The charges for maintenance of the line covered 24,146 sleepers replaced, against 11,725 sleepers in the half year to the 30th of June, 1863. Unusual local floods, aris ing out of the early storms of the monsoon, occa sioned serious damage to the opened portion of the railway at three points. Shortly before daylight on the 27th of Juno an embankment near Wassind was damaged by the bursting of a succession of shallow reservoirs in proximity to the railway, used for the cultivation of rice. This unfortunately led to an accident to a passenger train, attended with loss of life to several passengers. On the 19th of June a bridge of nine 30ft ircn girder openings over the Nulgunga river, close to the terminal sta tion of Mel -Tore, on the Nsgpore branch, fell, and on the 28th of June another bridge of five 20ft arches, between 0)roolee and Kheirgaum stations, was washed away, but the damage had been re paired. The Bhore Ghat incline had been main. tained clear for traffic since the 3d of March, ex cept for two days, the 231 and 211 h of June, when, owing to two landslips from the hillside, the incline was impassable, and it was necrs:ary to convey the passenger traffic along the old temporary line to Campoolee. In addition to the Mull Ghat (nine miles), referred to as likely to be completed by the end of this year, a further section of 33 miles of the N.gpore branch, extending from Mulkapore to Shaegaem, had been finished, and was ready for public traffic early in June, but that its opening had been postponed till the end of the monsoon. Upon the remaining portion of the branch the as orks were in a very forward state as far as Budnaira, 701 e miles beyond Shaegaunt, and from Bud naira to Nagpore, 1081 miles, 97 per cent. of the earthwork in embankments, 46 per cent of the bal lasting, 66 per cent of the viaducts, and 51 per cent of the bridges had been executed. Upon the other division of the north east line, from Bhosawul to Jubbulpore, the progress accomplished was as fol lows :--From Bhosawul to Hurdah, 1381 miles, 84 per cent of the earthwork in embankments, 32 per cent of the ballasting, 75 per cent of the viaducts and bridges, and 61 per cent of the culverts had been executed. In the Taptee viaduct 90 per cent of the masonry was finished, and the iron girders were being prepared for erection. The permanent way had been laid for 26 miles, and several of the stations were in an advanced state. From Hurdah to Sohagpore, 82 miles, 91 per cent of the earthwork in embankments, 31 per cent of the ballasting, 48 per cent of the masonry in viaducts and bridges, and 37 per cent in culverts had been executed. About 11 miles of permanent way had been laid. From Sohagpore to Jubbulpore, 1161 miles, the progress had been less satisfactory than was antici pated, but all the bridges, excepting three, were in progress, and the ballasting for 40 miles of line had been provided. The through railway communication between Bombay and Madras was to be effected via Raichore, at which place this company's railway would be joined to that of the Madras Railway Company. The distance from Sholapore to Raichore is 161 miles, and the line is now in course of being surveyed and staked out for construction. As re garded the connection of this company's line with the important town of Hyderabad, the directors were enabled to state that the (heat Indian Penin sula Extension Railway Company (Limited) were in communication with the Government of India, with the object of arranging terms for constructing a branch from Kulburga, or its neighbourhood, to Hyderabad. The capital account to Jane 30 showed that £12,150,636 had been received and £10,968,137 ex. o v eTrfin The l e; a n t p e e r n e d s t e ded, a , c l e c o a u v n t g t a o b June a n n e c e 3 o o f w £ hlB2 the,4B9G. showed that the total interest paid by the Govern ment amounted to £2,860,914, and that £709,453 of net revenue had been paid and was payable to the Government, leaving £2,151,461 chargeable against half-surplus profits over 5 per cent. BAHIA AND SAN FRANCISCO. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Friday at the London Tavern. Mr J. Samuel, chairman, presided. The report having been taken as read, The CIIIIMUN, in moving its adoption, said that Mr Watson, the contractor, had since the last meeting sent in a claim to the directors for £75,000. It was true the engineer in chief had previously intimated to the board that Mr Watson would be entitled to about £15,000. The directors then sent Mr Watson's claim to Mr Vignoles fur his exa mination, and his opinion was that as there were other things to consider ho thought the £15,000 might be extended to £20,000. At the same time he indicated that there was an item of £47,000 for the erection of certain works, and, among other things, for fitting up workshops, and as part of this claim would depend on the legal interpretation of the contract, he (Mr Vignoles) could not decide immediately upon it. The directors having received that intimation, they thought, in the interest of the company, that it would be undesirable to have recourse to legal proceedings and the Court of Chancery; that if an amicable arrangement could be come to with Mr Watson it would be preferable. They paid Mr Watson £30,00(/ in full of all demands on the com pany, and mutual releases had been exchanged between the company and contractor. That closed the claims against the capital account of the company, and left them in a satisfactory position. As regarded the traffic, it was any thing Ltit satisfactory. Gear, hear.) The proprietors